Cloud Server Performance, Prices, Specs and Features

Our mission is to test the performance of Virtual Private Servers (VPS) in depth, find those that give users the best value and report the results in a way that facilitates comparisons

VPS Rankings

Every month, we test between 10 and 15 new VPS.
For every one of them, we measure 25 different metrics over several days and
we use them to calculate grades in 5 categories including CPU power, disk IO speed and network speed. Finally we build a ranking every month and every quarter.
Here are the best VPS for the past month and the past quarter.

VPS Screener

Finding a fast VPS that will be reliable and that won't break the bank is no easy task. In the Screener you can review more than 60 VPS plans from 25 providers with their prices, performance and specifications all in one page. Each VPS is tested in depth and graded in 5 categories.

The Screener lists all VPS from all hosting companies with their grades. It allows filtering by price, by size (number of CPU cores, memory, disk space,...) or by provider and the list can be sorted by performance in the category of your choice.

Best Value VPS Plans

Cloud server performance usually improves when price and specifications (CPU, memory...) go up.
But a VPS that is twice as expensive is rarely twice as fast. Some low price VPS are
great deals, the best ones deliver an amount of power per dollar spent that can't be rivaled
by their more expensive peers.

The Price Weighted Screener helps you find the good ones and avoid the overpriced ones. It shows plan performance adjusted for cost: plans that are both fast and affordable are at the top of the list.

The Screener also lets you review all cloud server plans in a predefined price range.

Just Prices and Specs

Do you simply want to review VPS prices and their specs? Then head to the plan prices page, find the cheapest VPS or the one with the most memory, the most CPU cores or the largest disk space.

Cloud Storage Options and Prices

Cloud storage is essential to share or move data around servers and it is critical to backup your data. But there are many types of storage to choose from, the options vary slightly between providers and the pricing is complex, making comparisons difficult.

The Cloud Storage Pricing page explains and summarizes all options. Storage prices are collected from all providers that offer storage and are presented in a way that facilitates comparisons.

In Depth Performance Analysis

There is a lot more to vpsbenchmarks.com than just synthetic grades and scores. For every trial, a complete set of metrics is collected and processed. They can all be reviewed in the individual
VPS trial pages and individual metrics can be compared for any given set of plans.
There is a performance or stability metric for every possible usage of a VPS:

VPSBenchmarks Labs

CPU Models by Provider

Performance by CPU models

But what kind of performance can you get out of a specific CPU model? The CPU model list by Sysbench performance has the answer, it shows the performance level that be reached for each CPU model.

All metrics, prices and providers in one chart

If only this could all be laid out in a simple chart! No problem, you can correlate VPS plans, performance, stability metrics in the Metrics Correlation Chart.

How does it work?

Every few days, VPSBenchmarks purchases a new VPS and runs a live high traffic website on it.
We collect web server response time, remote response times and system metrics while it runs.
This is followed by network bandwidth tests at maximum speed. Then we run a full suite of Sysbench tests to measure CPU, disk and memory performance. And as if this was not enough, to make sure the provider is not going to steal your resources when you most need them, we run a 24 hour sustained CPU endurance test.

The full set of tests is called a "trial". You can follow the progression of the tests while they run by exploring the Trials page.